With the current school year almost at its halfway point, school districts around Oregon have begun looking ahead to next year.
The picture isn’t pretty.
In Portland, district leaders have released an early draft of how they would close a $50 million budget gap that includes 288 fewer employees overall, including 180 fewer employees in the district’s 81 school buildings and 108 fewer staff members in its central office, many of whom juggle assignments in multiple schools…